Customise your Drupal site

Add a slogan

• Go to Configuration -> Site information
• Add a ‘Slogan’ here and Save configuration
• When you go back to your homepage you’ll see the slogan appear in the header
• Have a look around at other configuration options, is there anything else you’d like to change?

Homepage

Now we’ve created a page to list all of our blog posts, we can build a custom homepage

1. Create a new basic page called ‘homepage’
2. Add some content to introduce your site adn yourself, maybe tell us about why you are doing this course and what you hope to achieve

3. Now make this page your homepage

4. Read: Change your front page

Blocks in Drupal

Blocks are a fundamental part of Drupal, making up small ‘boxes’ of content that can be placed just about anywhere.

• Watch: What blocks and regions are, and how to use the blocks administration page

Create some blocks

Exercise 1: Add a simple block

1. Add a new block (go to Structure -> Blocks -> Add block). We’ll call this block ‘My favourite quote’
2. Add some content into your new block, try a movie quote
3. Add it to either the Sidebar First or Sidebar Second region
4. Restrict to show only on pages
5. Now, add another block, this time use the visibility settings to restrict it to only show on Blog Posts. Call this block “About my Blog”. Add a message informing the users of your site that you’re taking part in an Apprenticeship programme, and that you’ll be updating your blog daily.

You can find all your blocks listed at Admin -> Structure -> Blocks click edit next to the block to change its title, content or visibility settings.

Resources

• Watch: What blocks and regions are, and how to use the blocks administration page

• Read: Creating a block